How do you get into The Writer’s Room?
We have not confirmed it. The Writer’s Room is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at The Writer’s Room
How the venue describes itself: “Cleveland’s First Members-Only Cocktail Lounge” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Corpse Reviver No. 2, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Writer’s Room sits
The Writer’s Room is in Cleveland, Ohio, in Cuyahoga County, in the Midwest of the United States. The city sits inside the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists four speakeasies and hidden bars in Cleveland. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Cleveland.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Writer’s Room are Speakeasy, about 1.4 km away, Bugsy’s Speakeasy, about 1.6 km away, and Blind Pig, about 2.5 km away.
Ohio holds 54 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Ohio speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Ohio
Ohio came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Ohio.
What the newspapers recorded in Cleveland
Searching the Library of Congress run of Ohio newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Cleveland:
- The toiler, February 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Writer’s Room through its own website and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 2399 W 11th St, Cleveland, OH 44113. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Writer’s Room we hold street address, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold telephone number, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a room rather than a bar and the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.